GURNELL GROVE COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1174906 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE GROVE, THE GROVE MISSIONAL COMMUNITY

A Church on the Gurnell Grove Estate in Ealing. Running weekly worship services, a weekly community cafe, a club in sheltered housing and regular social events and programmes, mission events and work parties to improve the estate.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH (IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY THE PROVISION OF WORSHIP SERVICES, PRAYER MEETINGS, THE PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF CHRISTIAN FESTIVALS, CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE; AND2. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, ILL-HEALTH, LACK OF EDUCATION OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT AND SUCH OTHER ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Ealing, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £42,139, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of two months of operating costs. The charity reported a net deficit of £13,693 for the year, driven by increased expenditure on charitable activities and staff costs, while total income rose to £208,829.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Grove Community (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anusha Couttigane · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Elizabeth Maffett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Baker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev David Baylor · trustee of 2 other charities
• Theresa Jackson

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Ealing

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Jane Elizabeth Maffett — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN, CASTLE HILL, EALING
• Rev David Baylor — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN, CASTLE HILL, EALING

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AIGBURTH COMMUNITY CHURCH.

• AIGBURTH COMMUNITY CHURCH income £176k
• GROVE HILL EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £154k
• NEWFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST income £71k
• THE ORRELL TRUST income £115k
• OAK GROVE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £215k
• KENILWORTH COMMUNITY CHURCH income £91k

Side by side with its peers

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